Planks Poems - Poems about Planks

A Whisper Into the Kitchen Floor

...He tastes the salt before he knows he's shed a tear
He'd always been a staggering man
Since his Army days known by most simply as Big Roy
Now he's a staggered man
This night, curved and hunched
...

sink bucket

...A sink bucket
Today I forgot to buy milk, drank black coffee 
it is easy to remember the past shines like jewels
It was the winter of 1952, and my brother carried
a big sink bucket, I was the sma...

No One Remembers

...This world wasn’t a nicest fit for me
But I lived here for awhile
I’m a spirit of a tall leafy tree
A tree with indefinite lovely smile
I provided shade when it was hot
A shelter from rains when...

Ocean reminder

...Whoever abandoned you in the middle of the ocean has no right to know what the sharks did to you or how you managed to reach the shore 

However difficult the time , they had the chance to stay bes...

Quiet Pier’s Lament

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Written: May 08, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand.

Art "Sitting at the Dock of the Bay' Oil, Plein Air Series, by Michelle Held. My Poem titled "Quiet Pier’s Lament" was written ...

Rivers Jumps Our Banks

...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking -
the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines
and telephone wires twist
netting loosening foundations.

Where we once believed roots gripp...

bridge speaks

...A tiny footstep, awakens my wooden planks
Who goes there? My inner journeying voice asks...

My Grandmother's Pot Plants

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Against the side fence,
four long planks of wood
ascended like steps supported
on pillars of old red bricks 
serving as a stand 
for my Grandmother's collection 
of potted plants.
Cuttings...

Wait For Me by the Tree

...Run! The city is going up in flame; run! The whole world is getting insane; run!  it is not a game; grab your bag and run, leave that place and come, meet me at the foot of the hill and guard your fa...

Nature’s Whisper

...I followed the beams beneath the cloud dotted expanse 
Dissolving into the earth like the glittering of morning sun
Just beyond the weathered cedar planks, notes of crisp juniper invigorate my sens...

Forgiveness Needs a Bridge

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God, the Father, had a plan all along, 
from creation to the virgin birth. 
Jesus, the Son, agreed to right the wrong
that Adam and Eve started on earth.

Human Jesus came down to bridge the g...

sky scraper

...
I was …

awake …
in the crow’s nest
but doing all I could to not nod off
we had been through storms that day and
all the previous night
(such was the North Bering)
so not a soul had slept
...

Political Blues

...Bears and dogs and brain worms, oh my. 
Made me want to vote for this guy! 
DeSantis was always my go-to, first choice
Social conservatives’ only real voice.
But then Iowa had their damned little...

MY Capt'n

...TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked
All s...

Red-Covered Bridge

...A ribbon of crimson, across the creek it lies,
A red-covered bridge, beneath a pale blue skies.
The weathered wood, a story it does tell,
Of whispered secrets, and the magic of a spell.

A path ...

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